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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1905
Page
7
Frederick Hillebrand invites children to submit original drawings on white paper nine inches for Sunday Post features. Names and addresses on back, badges expected October fifth, top entries may be published with several chosen.
Dr Winifield A Ames charged with assault and battery on Patrolman Charles W Reick was discharged by Judge Wentworth amid hand clapping. The dispute arose in the cellar at 11 Grove Street West Somerville when Reick tried to stop Ames from using a stove. Reick says Ames struck him and Ames was arrested. The case was continued to yesterday morning.
Robert Silverman a lawyer and politician with an office at 1 Beacon Street was held in $500 bail for the October term of the grand jury by Judge Adams in a private Municipal Court session yesterday. The charge is criminal libel of Walter L Harrington master of the Washington Grammar School in the West End.
Peter B. Segal owner of 20 Cleveland Place North End appeared before Justice Morton in the Supreme Court on a contempt charge. City counsel Samuel L. Childs alleges Segal defied an injunction by continuing construction and by altering wall thickness from 12 to eight inches, then transferring the completed building to another party.
Justice McKim in the Probate Court appointed George A. Linscott of Dorchester guardian for Jane M. Whitcomb of Chelsea, age over 80, with a $60,000 estate. Dr Charles Leeds testified she lacks mental capacity, and the judge granted the guardianship without further witnesses.
David Lilly, 70, accused of perjury in an illegal liquor case on Auburn Street West End. Judge Pierce sentences him to three months amid warnings of further trouble. Lilly’s counsel P M Mulvey sought mercy for age. Inspector Byrnes notes Lilly used a coal and wood selling cover to run a women’s drinking resort.
Judge Lowell reserved decision in the suit of James W. Austin as executor against Collector Gill. The case questions whether a war legacy tax of 943 dollars on the legacy to Mrs. Miriam D. Hay under Gustavus Hay Jr. was properly levied after she renounced and did not receive it. The tax was paid under protest.
In a mandamus suit the Wellesley Selectmen sought to compel the town assessors to value damages on an estate improved by the town. Justice Morton presided in the Supreme Court yesterday where counsel for the respondents argued the petitioners acted without proper authority.
The colored theological student Charles Fulp and Joseph Bourret were found guilty of an unnatural act and sentenced by Judge Pierce to six months and four months in the House of Correction respectively.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt wife of the president spent the night at Mr and Mrs George Lees Chestnut Hill after seeing her son Theodore Roosevelt Jr safely housed at Claverly Hall Cambridge to begin Harvard University freshman year. She arrived about five and dinner followed at seven with intimate relatives present. She will leave for Oyster Bay and will not meet newspaper men or make calls during her stay.
A cryptic note suggests planning a covert sneak while a mother figure remains unaware. The line hints at a playful ruse within a casual gathering.
Several hundred representative Cleveland men called at John D. Rockefeller's Forest Hill home to express esteem for him as a citizen and business leader through Andrew Squire and L. E. Holden. Mrs. Rockefeller attended. Rockefeller urged turning thoughts to higher service and endowing hospitals churches schools and asylums for the betterment of humanity.
The Boston School Board opened a contested drive led by Mr. Merrill to bar non resident teachers from appointment and require all staff to reside in Boston. Emily M. Porter and Mary F. Benson receive a one year leave with half pay as they retire. New grammar school masters to be confirmed: Frank W Chase, Charles E Harria, Stacy B Southworth, Charles F Vrenner.
The steamer Bayport outbound from Newport News to Boston collided with the three mast schooner Job H. Jackson near Thimble Shoal Light in Chesapeake Bay, sinking her. Norwegian crewman Charles Johnatse drowned, mate T J Robbins injured, and Captain Williamson and four others rescued. Later a second vessel, the Ann J Trainor, reportedly struck Bayport, damaging its starboard side.
The seventh conference of hospital superintendents at Hotel Vendome condemned lavish use of the surgeon's knife and wasteful hospital expenditures. Sir Henry C. Burdett led the critique. Rev Edward Everett Hale led prayer and Dr David W. Cheever gave the welcome for 2500 physicians of Massachusetts. Papers were presented by Hurd Rowe Wheelwright Taylor and Ochsner of Chicago. The conference will continue today.
The will of Mrs. Marcia Norris of 40 Concord street offers public bequests to Children’s Hospital Huntington avenue 5000 dollars a memorial to her deceased children to Women’s Charity Hospital Parker avenue 5000 dollars and New England Hospital for Women 5000 dollars. Residue goes to Boston Homeopathic Hospital Home for Aged People and Convalescent Home for Children. A Sept 5 1902 codicil adds 300 dollars to the Somerville Home for the Aged. an Aug 20 1897 codicil changes the residue to pay 4000 dollars to the Convalescent Home for Children at Wellesley with the remainder to private friends.
The American party, opposing the Mormon church in city and state politics, placed its first municipal ticket in nomination in Salt Lake City Utah.
Patrolman J. J. Fitzgerald of Jamaica Plain station halted a runaway horse pulling a wagon with two children aboard. He was dragged 30 yards and bruised before stopping the horse. The children Beatrice Wheeler 12 and Carl Wheeler 5 from Robeson street suffered minor injuries.
President Wright of Clark University spoke to the national Unitarian conference on the religion of George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts. He described Hoar as a humanitarian leader who opposed Chinese exclusion and supported anti slavery, while sometimes bucking party lines on protectionism.
The Dill home on West Foster street in Melrose hosted a refined wedding when Caroline Brewster Dill wed John Edward Rochfort of New York. Rev. A G Bale of Chester performed the ceremony as Miss Jessie G Dill served as bridesmaid and Edward Reid of Portsmouth acted as best man. Matron of honor was Mrs. Charles G Magee of Brookline.
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